At 7:00 am EST, EUR/USD opened at 1.03017 and closed at 1.03052. I have to wonder how much news leaked about the strength of today’s jobs situation report. By the beginning of the eight o’clock hour of trade, EUR/USD had fallen to 1.0257 and continued to fall further to 1.02524. OMB Statistical Policy Directive 4 … Continue reading Are government agencies following their own embargoes?
NADEX, a binary options exchange platform, has an events contract posted with a buy price of $.98 on the EUR/USD exceeding 1.0275 by the end of this coming week. Assuming the Federal Open Market Committee does not make any changes to the federal funds rate, discount window, and interest on reserve balances, I estimate that … Continue reading I see EUR/USD exceeding 1.0275 by this Friday
Today, at 7:06 am EST, the EUR/USD was trading at 1.1094. This reflected a price decrease from the 1.1143 price from yesterday. My take on the euro is that there appears to be less demand for it, not only based on its price but on a consumer expectations survey from the European Central Bank last … Continue reading Israel v Iran: The foreign exchange market is telling me to cool it.
This is a crazy sounding observation, but the Democrats may do best on the economy because of their preference for a high tax regime. I am not a proponent of the modern monetary theory or high taxes. I am not a proponent of taxes at all, but there is something to the MMT argument that … Continue reading Maybe the Democrats do best on the markets because they enjoy taxing us.
Trade is an inappropriate word. As I shared in an earlier post, we are exchanging things that we own, but making bets on value that we can claim sometime in the future. We trade our expectations on growth. Continue reading Trade is an inappropriate word…
United States. Federal Reserve System. The dollar. Covered interest rate parity. Swaps. Christopher J Waller. ” … there has, for some time, been commentary predicting that the dollar is destined for demise—potentially an imminent demise. Such predictions have not materialized. However, the role of the United States in the world economy is changing, and finance … Continue reading Retail foreign exchange trader news scan as of 1:30pm AST, Vice-chair Jefferson’s speech focuses on housing policy.
Reference rates per Board of Governors-Federal Reserve System Interest on Reserve Balances: 5.40% Discount Window Rate: 5.50% Effective Federal Funds Rate: 5.33% Source: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System Foreign exchange rates AUD/USD=0.6677 NZD/USD=0.6121 USD/JPY=155.39 GBP/USD=1.2672 EUR/USD=1.0868 USD/CAD=1.3615 USD/MXN=16.6852 Source: x-rates.com (Are you ready for your next trader challenge? Visit https://toptiertrader.com/?ref=1449) Head of … Continue reading Retail foreign exchange trader news scan as of 6:46 pm AST. Mester wants to see more progress toward lower inflation.
Ready for your next trader challenge? Visit https://traderswithedge.com/?r=348 Federal Reserve Bank of New York-Central Bank for the U.S. Virgin Islands AUD/USD=0.6423 GBP/USD=1.2397 EUR/USD=1.0655 JPY/USD=154.5500 Source: Board of Governors-Federal Reserve System Eastern Caribbean Central Bank USD/XCD=2.7000 GBP/XCD=3.3679 CAD/XCD=1.9626 EUR/XCD=2.8833 JPY/XCD=0.0175 Source: Eastern Caribbean Central Bank Central Bank of Barbados USD/BBD=1.9800 GBP/BBD=2.4399 CAD/BBD=1.4450 Source: Central Bank of … Continue reading Foreign exchange rates for the Eastern Caribbean as of 9:40 am AST
Around 6:31 am yesterday, approximately three and one-half hours prior to Federal Reserve Board chairman Jerome Powell’s testimony before the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services, the price of the U.S. dollar in terms of the euro, British pound, Japanese yen, Canadian dollar, and the Eastern Caribbean dollar was as follows: USD/EUR=0.9193 USD/GBP=0.7858 USD/JPY=149.7394 USD/CAD=1.3582 … Continue reading Dollar weakens after Powell’s testimony to Congress. Was it something he said?
Lawyers Write the Bets. Bankers Sell the Bets. 